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McCain Is Leading Fight To Pardon Jack Johnson

Found October 16, 2009 on SPORTS by BROOKS: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Jack Johnson
TEAMS: Los Angeles Kings

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I hesitate to brag about how far we’ve come as a society when there’s still things like this going on, but the racial forces that allied against former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson in the early portion of the 20th century really are a collection of rickety, antique notions. Isn’t it high time that Johnson [...]
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